Brexit is being derailed by this lacklustre Government of Remainers
SIR – I wonder if Theresa May and her Remainer colleagues are aware of the seething anger that Brexit voters feel about the utter shambles being made of the process.
The most important reason for voting Leave was to regain our sovereignty. Yet Mrs May has apparently refused to rule out signing up to a customs union and is keeping an “open mind” about it (report, February 3). It appears that “Brexit means Brexit” was a meaningless and disingenuous claim.
The Prime Minister, together with Philip Hammond, Amber Rudd and Greg Clark, are undermining Brexit. Between them they will destroy the Conservative Party and give the country over to a Marxist government for what could be a generation.
Wadhurst, East Sussex
SIR – Once again the Tory party is battering its leader. Those within the party who wanted to take Britain out of the EU have got their way: we are leaving. Now those same people are attacking the very person who has to negotiate their wishes with the EU. It amazes me that these people – mostly faceless – feel that this is the moment to advance their personal ambitions.
Is it not enough that, for many, they have destroyed immediate future prospects of solid economic growth and security and replaced them with uncertainty? Along the way they are also paving the way for a Labour government.
Dunnington, North Yorkshire
SIR – Amber Rudd claims that Cabinet ministers’ differences over Brexit have been exaggerated, and that the bespoke deal she is pressing for will be one that suits us all.
But we don’t want an outcome that suits us all. We want what the people of this country voted for a year and a half ago.
To suggest that members of the Cabinet are all now thinking along the same lines stretches credulity and suggests that we are being set up for a watered-down Brexit.
Edinburgh
SIR – Ambrose Evans-pritchard (Business, February 2) explains the fundamental mistake the Government made in the planning and execution of the Brexit negotiations.
Rather than assuming that all would be sweetness and light, it should have assumed that the separation would be on World Trade Organisation terms, and made appropriate arrangements. This would have put both sides on the same footing. As things stand, Britain is a weak supplicant and is being treated as such.
Ferndown, Dorset
SIR – I have officially declared my house a Brexit-free zone. The only permissible topics are the Six Nations and the weather.
Purley, Surrey